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By ece toksabay ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey could give military or logistical support to U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State insurgents in Syria, President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying on Tuesday. “We will give the necessary support to the operation. The support could be military or logistics,” Erdogan was quoted by Turkish broadcaster NTV as telling reporters in New York.

englishpen.org – English PEN, ARTICLE 19 and Reporters Without Borders have called on President Erdoğan to promote a culture that is favourable to freedom of expression. The letter follows the intimidation of New York Times reporter Ceylan Yeğinsu, who

cfr.org – Sep 27, 2007, 8:12 AM – ZAKARIA: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this very special meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations. We are very lucky to have with us a very special and distinguished guest. I met our current speaker before he was president, before he was

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says he is considering expanding support of NATO operations against the ISIL to include military involvement. Meanwhile, air strikes hit ISIL-held territory in Syria with ‘warplanes coming from the direction of Turkey’

The US military has released new video footage of Isis targets being destroyed in the first wave air strikes against the group in Syria. The targets included:

Turkey’s top thug: president v. press freedomsNew York Post
He’s used it frequently in the Ergenekon and Sledgehammer cases, both of which involved largely fabricated evidence of supposed military plots to overthrow the government. Both sets of prosecutions were broadly condemned outside Turkey, but the

GPoT Policy Brief (GPoT Center) No. 40, September 2014, 14 p. By Omar Sheira * The 2011 Arab uprisings marked a turning point for Turkey’s foreign policy toward the Middle East. When the protests erupted in Egypt, former Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan became the first leader to voice support for former President Hosni Mubarak’s

Crisis Briefings (Global Humanitarian Assistance) 23 September 2014 Development Initiatives, Start Network On 23rd September 2014 we responded to a funding alert for the Kurdish refugees from Syria into Turkey. Key messages: Donors have committed/contributed US$268 million of humanitarian funding to Turkey so far in 2014, both within and outside the UN-coordinated Syria Regional Response

ACAPS Briefing Note (The Assessment Capacities Project ) 23 September 2014 Start Network On 16 September, Islamic State (IS) launched another offensive on the Kobane area in northeastern Syria, controlled by Kurdish forces. Kobane city, with a population of 400,000, is under siege. The city had been relatively stable during the conflict and was host

BBC Monitoring European (UK) September 23, 2012 Türkçe by Rusen Cakir We know that some of the foreigners who fight in (IS)ID [Islamic State (of Syria and the Levant), ISIL] in Syria and Iraq have joined the organization from Turkey. In addition, there

foreignpolicy.com – Sep 21 – In Thursday’s vote, the people of Scotland did not opt for independence. But they may well have lowered the bar for separatists all around the world — not least among the countless ethnic groups of Asia. The Caledonian contest came down to the…

SURUC, Turkey (AP) — Syrian Kurdish forces fighting the Islamic State group near the border with Turkey on Tuesday welcomed airstrikes carried out by the United States and five Arab countries against the militants, while more refugees poured into Turkey from Syria to escape the fierce fighting in the region.